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Recent TV news stories in England of mobile phone viruses.
Do people use these?
Are they only necessary on picture phones?
Does one have to open a file to activate the virus?
[ This Message was edited by: GOwin on 2005-07-03 14:37 ]
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Posted: 2005-07-03 10:10:06
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Mobile viruses occur mostly on phones with large and complex operating systems
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Posted: 2005-07-03 10:44:50
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So far virus have only been found on Series 60 phones. 90% of S60 phones are nokias and none are se phones so the problem is mainly with nokias.
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Posted: 2005-07-03 10:49:31
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Also, non of the current series 60 viruses are able to do any serious damage because they can't change or delete system files since these files are held on an eeprom. Switch your phone off and on again and the virus has gone, unless your silly enough to run the virus file again!
The real problems will start when phones start storing the entire OS on a hard disk or similar storage device like computers do.
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Posted: 2005-07-03 13:54:15
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That's reassuring!
So as long as the phones continue to store the OS on eprom we're okay?
What about our external media cards? e.g. the memory sticks in the P series phones.
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Posted: 2005-07-04 10:32:02
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so the new nokia 4gb phone and the samsung 3gb phone will be in trouble ?
i was getting worried about the virus threats on the news - lucky i dont have to worry about it now ...
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Posted: 2005-07-04 10:38:08
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A virus could be installed as an application on a memory stick but you would still have to physically run it. Until such time as phones have a full 'start-up' folder or other functionality to automatically start user installed applications upon switching the phone on (like windows does), any viruses would be struggling a bit to get started.
The new hard drive phones will only be at risk if the operating system files are stored on the hard drive, loaded into memory upon switching the phone on and are writable by third party applications. If the hard disk is used purely for file storage or installing applications only, then the risk is the same as for current Series 60 or UIQ phones that use memory sticks.
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Posted: 2005-07-04 13:09:52
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Even without Startup folder, many UIQ applications manage to auto-load on boot automatically. SMan and DateMate are a few examples.
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Posted: 2005-07-04 15:12:11
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They don't on mine
After switching the phone on and off, I have to start them both manually.
Is there some setting I'm missing or something?
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Posted: 2005-07-04 17:16:20
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One exception -> Reboots made by the backup program don't auto-start applications.
I hate that, but it has it's uses (to stop bad behaved applications from auto-starting)
What I do after the backup is to turn off the phone and turn on again.
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Posted: 2005-07-04 18:54:30
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